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Over at Phi Beta Cons, FIRE Legal Network member, Director of the Alliance Defense Fund’s Center for Academic Freedom, and former FIRE president David French discusses the University of Wisconsin’s ongoing and increasingly incomprehensible problems with abiding by the U.S. Constitution. French writes:

Yesterday, after threatening that he would cut the religious elements out of the University of Wisconsin’s Roman Catholic Foundation’s budget, University of Wisconsin (Madison) Chancellor John Wiley agreed to fund the foundation’s student fee request. However, he then indicated that next year, the university would engage in viewpoint discrimination by scrutinizing whether student fees would fund religious activities. In other words, the university has punted the constitutional questions down the field.